Tax for poor and rich? What does the right want? The right wants low taxes for the rich so that they can live on the returns from their accumulated and inherited capital from an early age. The right wants high taxes and low wages/remunerations for low income earners to pressure them to become cheap servants of the rich. How does…
Category: General pensions
Grass roots - unite
Grass roots - unite! During the late 1960s, when the Social Democrats were at their strongest, they instituted an economics prize in his memory against Alfred Nobel's wishes. Soon a bloody coup d'état was carried out in Chile by the right. The Nobel committee immediately chose to award the prize to neoliberals such as Milton Friedman. This marked a shift on false grounds from Keynesianism to neoliberalism for…
Good pensions require progressive taxes and adequate government deficits
It is always today's production capacity that pays for today's pensions via taxes. Vote for good pensions and work for an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable future. Pensions require sustainable production A system with sufficient progressive taxes and government deficits/that the government creates money instead of the banks doing it via lending (read about deficits here) can...